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as long as you're comparing poetry and rap...when rap's done right, i see the two as being one and the same.
i don't know much about poetry beyond what i learned in high school english, but in my opinion, what a literary academic might view as pop-culture trash, i see as a ligitimate and respectable form of poetry that's distinctly american, or african-american (god i hate using that phrase) to be specific. when it's from the heart, of course--and as long as p. diddy has nothing to do with it.
from what i can remember, good poetry used to have rhythm, meter, and rhyme back in the days before free-form poetry became accepted to both literary types and depressed adolescents with spiral notebooks. but when you look at the best rap (public enemy comes immediately to mind), it has the kind of depth and technical skill shakespeare, poe and donne had.
of course, i can't do either...so i can't answer your questions. |
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